Wimp, WIMP, or Wimps may refer to:
Science and technology
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Weakly interacting massive particle
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter.
There exists no formal definition of a WIMP, but broadly, a WIMP is a new elementary particle which interacts via gra ...
, a hypothetical particle of dark matter
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WIMP (computing), the "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm
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WIMP (software bundle), the web stack of Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python
Arts and entertainment
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WiMP
Wimp, WIMP, or Wimps may refer to:
Science and technology
* Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical particle of dark matter
* WIMP (computing), the "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm
* WIMP (software bundle), the web stack of Wind ...
, a defunct music streaming service
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WURH-CD (former call signs WIMP-LP, WIMP-CA, and WIMP-CD), a television station licensed to serve Miami, Florida, US
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Wimps (band)
Wimps is a punk rock band from Seattle, Washington formed in 2012. The band includes drummer Dave Ramm (formerly of The Intelligence
The Intelligence is an American rock band from Seattle, formed in 1999. Founded by multi-instrumentalist Lar ...
, a US punk rock band
* Wimp, played by Rick Lawless, a character on the TV sitcom ''
Herman's Head''
People
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Wimp Sanderson
Winfrey "Wimp" Sanderson (born August 8, 1937) is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Alabama from 1981 to 1992 and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from 1994 to 1999.
Sanderson was born in Flore ...
(born 1937), retired basketball coach known as "Wimp"
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Kay Davis or Katherine McDonald Wimp (1920–2012), jazz singer
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Mary Baumgartner
Mary Baumgartner (September 13, 1930 – June 2, 2018) was an American professional baseball player who played as a catcher from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.
Overview profile ...
, also known as "Wimp" (1930–2018), former female baseball catcher
*derogatory term for a
coward
See also
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Farkle (Wimp Out), a dice game that has also been called or is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk
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The Diary of Horace Wimp
"The Diary of Horace Wimp" is the fourth track on the Electric Light Orchestra album ''Discovery'', written by Jeff Lynne.
Released in 1979 as a single, the song is Beatlesque in nature and became a Top Ten hit in the UK and Ireland. The lyric ...
", a track on the Electric Light Orchestra album ''Discovery''
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WIMP Argon Programme, a cold dark matter experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
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Wimpy (disambiguation)
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